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'You'll be the main losers', IRGC intel chief warns Europeans over 'snapback'

Iran Press TV

Monday, 28 July 2025 6:37 AM

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)'s intelligence chief has strongly warned the UK, France, and Germany against trying to restore the United Nations sanctions against Iran.

"If the Europeans choose to take [certain] actions, we [too] have approaches at our disposal to take that we can deploy well, and the main losers in this matter will be the Europeans themselves," head of the IRGC's Intelligence Organization Brigadier General Majid Khademi said.

He was addressing ongoing efforts by those countries, signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic, to invoke the deal's so-called "snapback" mechanism. This mechanism would reinstate the UN Security Council's sanctions against Iran, including the arms embargo, which the agreement lifted upon its conclusion.

Trying to justify their campaign, the European trio alleges that Iran's nuclear energy program has been "diverted towards military purposes."

The claim, however, has never been verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has carried out most intrusive inspections of the country's nuclear facilities.

The Islamic Republic says the European troika lacks the legal authority to reenact the mechanism.

Tehran has also noted that the European states' siding with the United States "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran after Washington's illegal withdrawal from the deal in 2018, and their supporting the Israeli regime's unprovoked war on Iran last month, further robs them of any other excuse to take such action.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Khademi pointed to the Iranian nation and Armed Forces' effective defense of the country and successful retaliation in the face of the Israeli war.

"In the recent war, the enemy had thought that our national unity would falter," he said.

However, both the nation and the servicemen "proved that they could force the enemy back," the official said, adding, "In the end, it was the enemy who asked for a ceasefire."

The Israeli regime imposed the war on Iran on June 13, using an earlier anti-Iran resolution by the IAEA's Board of Governors that the same European countries and the US had advanced, as an excuse.

The Iranian Armed Forces, though, stood up to the aggression, first deploying effective defensive maneuvers and then determined counterstrikes that saw them fire hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones against critical nuclear, military, and industrial targets across the occupied Palestinian territories.

The combined measures compelled the regime to request a ceasefire just 12 days into the war.

"Right now, Iran is in a very strong position in terms of security. The people possess a high level of awareness and vigilance, and our Armed Forces are in a state of complete preparedness," Khademi stated.